Fish Hospital To Open Bone Clinic

DELAND — Fish Memorial Hospital is building an osteoporosis screening clinic scheduled to open toward the end of the summer that will detect early signs of the bone disease for faster intervention.

Osteoporosis is the 12th leading cause of death in the United States and affects more than 20 million people, particularly women over 35 years old, according to the National Institute of Health Consensus on Osteoporosis.